McRae Jail explained

McRae Jail
Location:E. First St., McRae, Arkansas
Coordinates:35.1133°N -91.8211°W
Builder:Works Progress Administration
Architecture:WPA architecture
Added:July 20, 1992
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:91001344

The McRae Jail is a former local jail on East First Street in McRae, Arkansas. It is a small single-story masonry structure, built out of cast concrete. It has a single door with a barred opening, and small openings on the sides, also barred. Built about 1934 with funding from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), it is one of three jails built in White County by the WPA, and is of those three the best preserved.[1]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for McRae Jail. Arkansas Preservation. 2016-01-09.